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Identifying name: Ekat-2
Date: September 2018 – May 2018
Participants: (1) Children from 4 to 9 years old with ASD, (2) Children from 3 to 9 years old with typical development (3) Children from 4 to 9 years old with a diagnosis of language impairment./span>
Funding: MIS, ARC
Summary: The aim of this study is to examine strategies used by young children with autism and with SLI to infer word meaning. More precisely, this study aims at analyzing and comparing the ability of children in three groups to use socio-pragmatic cues, such as the communicative intent of an adult, to guide their learning as well as the role of phonological processing in word mapping. Your child will perform a task on a touch-screen, in the form of an interactive game.
Status: On-going recruitment. If you are interested in participating or in having your child participate in one of our studies, please sign-up HERE and we will then send you more information about this study.
Sleep and learning
Identifying name : Som-1
Date : October 2017 – December 2018
Participants : (1) Verbal children from 7 to 11 years old with a diagnostic of autism (2) Verbal children from 7 to 11 years old with typical development.
Funding : Marguerite-Marie Delacroix's relief funds
Summary : Sleep plays an important role in word learning but little is known about the exact mechanisms favoring this learning process. In this study, we will record your child's sleep in order to identify the sleep waves involved in this learning process. The aim of this study will be to investiguate whether sleep quality is linked to memory skills. Moreover, some studies indicate that sleep helps to regulate emotions. The second aim of this study is to investiguate whether emotional regulation difficulties, which are frequently encountered in Autism, are associated with impaired sleep architecture. At the end of the study, you will receive a video explaining the results of the study as well as a sleep report.
Status : On-going recruitment. If you are interested in participating or in having your child participate in one of our studies, please sign-up HERE and we will then send you more information about this study.
The impact of bilingualism on language development in children with Autism
Identifying name : BIL-001
Date : February 2018 – December 2018
Participants : (1) 4- to 8-year-old children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Summary : The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of bilingualism on different aspects of language development in children with ASD, to determine whether bilingualism can cause additional language delay in children with ASD. We are looking for children with ASD who have grown up in an exclusively monolingual environment with two parents speaking only French (monolingual group) or in a bilingual environment: either with two parents speaking a mother tongue other than French (Maghrebi Arabic), or with two parents speaking two different mother tongues, one of which is French and the other is Maghrebi Arabic.
Status : On-going recruitment. If you are interested in having your child participate in this study, please sign-up HERE or send us an email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), and we will then send you more information about this study.
Social interactions in young children
Identifying name : SOC-001
Date : September 2018 – December 2018
Participants : (1) 6- to 9-year-old typically developed children (2) 6- to 9-year-old children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Funding : F.R.S.-FNRS (grant FRESH); David & Alice Van Buuren’s funds
Summary : This 5-sessions experiment allows your child to play different games and to get involved in painting activities with an adult. Those natural and spontaneous interactions are recorded by a camera to provide the researcher with real social behaviours from children with and without autism. To know how your child feels during those games, s/he will wear two little electrodes on her/his non-dominant hand as well as eye-tracking glasses to record what interests her/him. This material is harmless.
Status : On-going recruitment. If you are interested in having your child participate in this study, please sign-up HERE or send us an email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), and we will then send you more information about this study.